Christina Ricci

A child star who managed that rare successful transition to onscreen adulthood, actress Christina Ricci's early career was aided in no small part by the fact that her roles did not depend on dimpled c...
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Okay, so maybe it's because I am very fond of the '90s, but we love the '90s The Addams Family movies. The best movie of the trilogy is Addams Family Values because Joan Cusack is a thrilling gold digging villain called "The Black Widow." Thanks to Netflix we can now watch it whenever we want. Still don't get why I love this move? Here are 13 reasons!
1. We love that Gomez and Morticia are so in love after years of marriage.
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2. Wednesday's comebacks are inspirational.
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3. Morticia is a beauty icon.
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4. Gomez and Morticia's dancing is everything.
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5. Fester really tugged at our hearts being such a romantic.
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6. This kiss was one of the most romantic things we've ever saw...in our childhood.
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7. The scene where Pugsley and Wednesday get to scare off their potential babysitters fulfilled our childhood dreams.
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8. People reacting to Thing never ceased to make us laugh.
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9. We couldn't get over the cuteness of the new additions to the family.
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10. We loved to hate Debbie.
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11. We will never forget that crazy Thanksgiving play.
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12. Wednesday and Pugsley always knew how to make the best of spare time.
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13. It involves this lovely classic song. Who can resist?
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Why do you love The Addams Family? Tweet us your answers to the Twitter handles below!
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Christina Ricci and Clea Duvall are reprising their roles as the Borden sisters for a TV mini-series inspired by the actresses' hit drama Lizzie Borden Took an Ax. The TV movie about suspected killer Lizzie Borden premiered on America's Lifetime network in January (14) and became an instant hit, prompting executives to greenlight a follow-up series.
Ricci will return as Lizzie in the six-hour mini-series, titled Lizzie Borden: The Fall River Chronicles, while Duvall will play Emma Borden.
Lizzie Borden was controversially acquitted of the double murder of her father and stepmother in 1892.

Actress Christina Ricci has given birth to a baby boy. The Sleepy Hollow star and her husband James Heerdegen recently welcomed their first child together, according to UsMagazine.com.
Details about the newborn have yet to be revealed.
The couple met on the set of axed TV show Pan Am in 2012 and wed in New York City in October (13).

Now And Then screenwriter Marlene King wants to revive the popular 1995 film as a TV series. King divulged the plan after a fan asked if there will ever be a follow-up to the coming-of-age film nearly 20 years after its debut.
In a Reddit.com Ask Me Anything session on Monday (09Jun14), King explained, "We're talking about it. We're talking about Now & Then the TV series.
"(U.S. network) ABC family has shown a little bit of interest in that, so we're still talking about that. People tweet about this to me all the time, they'll even send me photos of themselves watching the movie on a sunday afternoon."
Now and Then followed a group of four grown-up women and featured flashbacks to their childhood in the 1970s. The film featured Demi Moore, Rosie O'Donnell, Melanie Griffith, and Rita Wilson, while their younger counterparts were played by Gaby Hoffmann, Christina Ricci, Thora Birch, and the late Ashleigh Aston Moore, respectively.

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Actress Gaby Hoffmann looks set to become a first-time mother in the same year as her Now And Then co-star Christina Ricci.
The 32-year-old Girls star, who appeared in the 1995 coming-of-age film with Ricci, showed off what appeared to be a blossoming baby bump at a screening of her new movie Obvious Child in Los Angeles on Wednesday night (04Jun14).
A source tells People.com, "Gaby was beaming from ear to ear and kept rubbing her belly... chatting (to actress Busy Philipps) and looking over baby pics."
Ricci confirmed her own pregnancy last month (May14).

Actress Christina Ricci is pregnant with her first child. The Addams Family star, 34, is expecting a baby with her husband James Heerdegen, who she married in New York City in October (13).
Ricci's representative confirmed the happy news to Justjared.com and the star has been pictured sporting a large baby bump.
The couple met on the set of TV show Pan Am.

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After last week’s premiere of Flowers in the Attic, Lifetime really kept the January creep-fest going with its new movie, Lizzie Borden Took an Ax. Based on true events, Lizzie Borden Took an Ax tells the story of a 32-year-old woman in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1892. She was accused of brutally murdering her father and stepmother, Andrew and Abby Borden. From neglectful and abusive parents to children who kill their parents — shouldn’t these movies have premiered closer to Halloween?
Whether you know the whole story of Lizzie Borden, most have probably heard the rhyme: “Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.” (Though the number of whacks is exaggerated, sort of — 18 and 11.) Christina Ricci stars as the titular character in Lizzie Borden Took an Ax. Clea DuVall costars as Lizzie’s sister Emma; Billy Campbell plays the Borden’s lawyer, Andrew Jennings.
The plot of the movie sounds like something along the lines of Snapped: 1892 edition, and the set up of the story is particularly procedural. The first half hour is spent establishing the characters before the Bordens are murdered. Then the police investigate for a half hour before the 1890s equivalent of a district attorney (Gregg Henry) charges Lizzie with the murder. It takes forty minutes to get through the trial as the prosecutor and Mr. Jennings weave two possible scenarios. Finally in the last ten minutes, after Lizzie is acquitted, she comes clean to her sister about what went down on that hot day in Fall River.
On a technical level, the color of the film is unsaturated and made to appear aged. However a bluesy alt-rock soundtrack throws off the old-fashioned sheen of the movie, though, to be honest, I didn’t hate the music. Ricci pulls off the aloof and slightly sociopathic Lizzie while Campbell puts as much effort into his role as the defense attorney. Currently, we love Campbell on Syfy’s Helix, but we’re glad he took a break from mysterious viruses to delve into the mysterious 1892 crime.
Since Lizzie Borden Took an Ax is the story of an actual unsolved murder — though everyone really believes she did it — this Lifetime movie is perfect for people who enjoy learning about creepy historical figures (similar to Marie Delphine LaLaurie on American Horror Story: Coven) or fans of Snapped.
The best part of the whole movie however is the end, where the film includes the well-known rhyme. There’s nothing like a group of children singing about a gruesome double murder while skipping rope to really set the menacing tone of the ending. (Seriously what is it about kids singing that is so hair-raisingly spooky?) It was the perfect creepy end to a not-so-creepy movie.
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"I just like to fit in small things. I feel when you're this small there has to be an upside... I have another friend who is my size and she started taking pictures of me doing this stuff... You gotta use your brain; you don't go in things you can't get out of." Actress Christina Ricci on her penchant for crawling into sinks, refrigerators and clothes dryers for odd photo sessions.

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They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky, they're back for one more movie, the Addams Family. According to Variety, the spooky family is being rebooted as an MGM animated movie.
The final negotiations are still underway, but Pamela Pettler (Corpse Bride and Monster House) is set to pen the screenplay, and BermanBraun's Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun are in talks to produce the film. Earlier in the year, it was expected that a Tim Burton-led stop-motion Addams Family movie would be made, but the project was put to rest in July.
While we're not a fan of all of the reboots that are being announced as of late (we're looking at you, Charmed), we're pretty excited that our favorite Halloween-esque family is inviting us back into their mansion. When you've got a set of characters — especially one that has a family dynamic — that are off-kilter (in the best way possible), it's not a bad move to reincarnate them for another go-around.
The Addams Family has been around since 1938 when the family came to life in Charles Addams' comic strip, and 75 years later, it's seen its fair share of air-time. The family came to the masses via ABC's sitcom, which aired from 1964 to 1966, and then was the basis for a handful of other TV series (one being an animated version), two Paramount live-action films (The Addams Family and Addams Family Values), a musical, and the straight-to-video reboot Addams Family Reunion (which we like to pretend never happened). Suffice it to say, the black-clad family certainly has enough of a fanbase — one that loves a dose of nostalgia every now and then -- to warrant another reboot.
Plus, we're just super psyched to see which version of Wednesday is going to come out to play: the sweet-natured girl who loved her pet spiders (a la the '60s TV series) or the morbid girl with a deadpan wit and an urge to murder her brother (also known as Christina Ricci in the 1991 live-action film). We're definitely hoping it will be the diabolical Wednesday.
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Cast in breakthrough screen role as Wednesday Addams in "The Addams Family"

Co-starred with Nick Swardson in the comedy feature "Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star"

Earned an Emmy nomination for Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series for "Grey's Anatomy"

Landed a supporting role as the laundry-obsessed girlfriend of a photographer in John Waters' "Pecker"

Played the lesbian lover of Charlize Theron's character in "Monster"

Had pivotal role in the thriller "Bless the Child"

Made cameo appearance in Anjelica Huston's "Bastard Out of Carolina" (aired on Showtime)

Did voice-overs and appeared in TV commercials

Raised in Montclair, NJ

Voiced the character of Lilly in the animated feature "Alpha and Omega"

Cast in the HBO feature ensemble "The Laramie Project," adapted from Moises Kaufman's stage drama about the aftermath of the murder of Matthew Shepard

Earned rave reviews as a pregnant teenager who wreaks havoc in the comedy-drama "The Opposite of Sex"

Summary

A child star who managed that rare successful transition to onscreen adulthood, actress Christina Ricci's early career was aided in no small part by the fact that her roles did not depend on dimpled cuteness, but on an unnerving maturity that suggested a keen intelligence beyond that of her adult co-stars. Ricci spent her teens as a gloomy, precocious lead in several successful comedies and melodramas such as "Mermaids" (1990), "The Addams Family" (1991) and "Now and Then" (1995). Still in her teens, she exploited both her maturity and burgeoning sexuality in more artful projects that included "The Ice Storm" (1997), "The Opposite of Sex" (1998) and "Buffalo '66" (1998). Despite the growing respect she received from her peers, the narrow confines of Hollywood proved problematic for Ricci, whose later projects varied from little seen indie films like "Prozac Nation" (2001), to well-acted visceral dramas like "Monster" (2003), to such commercial pabulum as "Cursed" (2005). Later decade work included the sexually-charged potboiler "Black Snake Moan" (2006), opposite Samuel L. Jackson, and "Speed Racer" (2008), a visual spectacular directed by the Wachowski Brothers. Eventually settling into a comfortable mix of small personal projects, big budget fare and more frequent television work, Ricci maintained a consistent presence as one of film's more interesting and accomplished young actresses.

Met on set of ABC's "Pan Am"; Reportedly engaged October 2012; Ricci confirmed engagement Feb. 1, 2013; Married in New York City on October 26, 2013.

James Oliver

Companion

Dated 2001; No longer together

Ralph Ricci

Father

Divorced Ricci's mother 1995

Sarah Ricci

Mother

Divorced Ricci's father 1995

Dante Ricci

Brother

Born c. 1974

Rafael Ricci

Brother

Born c. 1971

Pia Ricci

Sister

Born c. 1976

Education

Name

Edgemont Elementary School

Professional Children's School

Montclair High School

Glenfield Middle School

Notes

Ricci was discovered at age eight in school play, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" by the drama critic for the Bergen Record who gave the family the telephone number of an agent; the critic's son had originally been cast in the role but Ricci got the boy to hit her and tattled on him, receiving the part as part of his punishment.

"We're kind of kindred spirits. She's me in a very small body." – Cher on Ricci, quoted in People, Nov. 6, 1995

"I've been very guarded since I was little. I think that's whay I'm an actor, because I can hide any emotion I have at any time and I can put on another one whenever I need to." – Ricci to Graham Fuller in Interview magazine, Oct. 1997

"I think the main reason a lot of people don't make it is that it's hard to see someone as cute as then to all of a sudden see them as having more depth. I guess I was just lucky that when I was little, nobody thought I was that cute." – Ricci on the transition from child to adult actor, quoted in Rolling Stone magazine, Aug. 20, 1998

"Christina is a great combination of little-girl vulnerability and tough-talking gun moll. She does not tolerate phonies." – director Don Roos ("The Opposite of Sex") to The New York Times, May 17, 1998

"Christina has the most remarkable face on-camera. It's a combination of angelic and sensual, really peaceful and troubled. There's this whole complex of energies going on, which is really fascinating." – director Risa Bramon Garcia ("200 Cigarettes") to Time Out New York, May 14-21, 1998

"I was an evil child – well, misguided. I just felt school was never going to end, that there was a weird smell in the classroom I was going to have to smell for the rest of my life. If a little kid could be depressed, I guess I was depressed." – Ricci quoted in Time magazine, June 15, 1998

"After I got out of high school, I was like, this [acting] is my job. Before, I was doing it because it was fun. Now, I'm like, this is how I pay my rent. Now I have to keep working, because I'm afraid if I stop, I won't have any money." – Ricci to Us magazine, June 1998

"I never lose touch with my anger. I have no idea what the real source is, but I'm always mad about something. It gets ridiculous at times. I have life rage. What am I going to with it? I can't kick the sh*t out of someone. I can't yell or constantly be rude to people, because that's unacceptable. I have a therapist on each coast. I've had a problem with that, too, because I've had a different personality when I go to different ones. I've overcome that, though, because I really don't think that helps my therapy at all. [Laughing] I'd say that, deep down, I'm very disillusioned. I've been that way for a very long time. As much as I'm cynical, though, there's a lot of optimism in me, which pretty much assures that, over and over, I'm going to be disillusioned [Laughing]. But I have the ability to laugh at all this stuff." – Ricci quoted in Movieline, April 1998

"I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off." – Ricci to Movieline November 2002

"I'm sort of the last person another actress needs to be competitive with, because all I want is steady pay" – Ricci quoted in Interview magazine, Feb. 2004

"This is a girl who spent most of her childhood on a set. She loves the action, the activity, the focus and the attention. She likes to be around the camera – in front of it, behind it or beside it." – director Don Roos, on Ricci, to W magazine, Sept. 2006

"I let people do what they need to do to me image-wise and visually while I'm at work, because I know the difference between being at work and what I do at home. That just comes from growing up on sets, whereas if you come in as an adult, you're a little bit more guarded about who you are." – Ricci to Premiere magazine, Sept. 2006

The world is just a really scary place. People scare the sh*t out of me." – Ricci to Esquire magazine, March 2007

According to Emmy magazine (Issue No. 7, 2011), Ricci was the only lead actress on ABC's "Pan Am" cast on an offer-only basis (i.e, sans audition).